John Maynard Keynes - Hopes Betrayed 1883-1920 by Skidelsky, Robert - 1986

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Clean and secure in original binding in bright dustjacket (in protective mylar cover). This first volume of a brilliant new biography covers the formative years of the most influential- and controversial- economist of the twentieth century. It is not a book about the "Keynesian revolution," but a sympathetic, lucid exposition of its cultural and biographical background. Robert Skidelsky tells the fascinating detail how a remarkable mind came to concern himself with the practical problems of his time and to exert a profound influence upon them. "Acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman's life. examines in its entirety the intellectual and ideological journey that led an extraordinarily gifted young man to concern himself with the practical problems of an age overshadowed by war. Sidelsky offers a sympathetic account of the life of a passionate visionary and an invaluable insight into the economic philosophy that still remains at the centre of political and economic thought." .